I’m obviously still consumed with consuming Jay Papasan’s book,
The One Thing. This is like finding a vein of gold and following it
to an abundance of riches.

I’m giving you “one year to master 5 things and turn them into
habits.”

Daily exercise

Daily meditation

Healthy eating

Learn a new language

Learn a musical instrument.

Most people would go to work immediately, planning their day to
include a bit of each one.

THIS IS WHY WE FAIL.

We’re trying to take 5 things all at once and condition our mind
to make these regular habits in our life. AND we’re exhausted each
day.

In addition to everything else you do, you’re trying to add in
five things you’re not used to doing.

The process of learning a new habit consumes so much of our the
available power in our prefrontal cortex, we’re completely
tapped-out when we’re trying to learn too many things at
once.

Within a couple of months, we’re distracted and slowing letting
our new desired habits die off.

Now, let’s look at a new approach that will change your
life.

A study published by Health Psychology Researcher Phillippa
Lally in the European Journal of Social Psychology shows that the
average time to form a new habit is 66 days.

This takes into consideration the simpler habit like drinking a
glass of water every morning along with the more difficult ones
like including daily exercise (at least difficult for me). Average
is 66 days.

So, what if you forgot the other 4 habits you had to learn and
focus on the one you thought might take the longest, such as
learning a musical instrument.

If each of the new desired habits takes an average of 66 days to
learn, it will take you (on average) 330 days to integrate all 5
habits. That leaves you 35 days of wiggle room in case one
takes a bit longer.

DAILY LIFE.

This is why so many of us are failing at so much of what we want
to accomplish in life. We’re trying to do it all at once.

Pick the one thing that’s most important to your success… drop
the others and stay focused on the ONE THING (see, there’s that
book again) until it’s a habit.

Habits take little mental effort. New tasks take tons of
effort. Learning something new will tax your mind in a big
way.

Doing what you’ve always done is often called a mindless task.
It takes little mental power. Think about a drive you
take every day. Sometimes you get to work and don’t even
remember the drive (unless you’re in Southern California… you
remember EVERY morning commute.).

Again, I’m giving you the summary of this. In the book The One Thing, Jay Papasan does a more in depth
explanation as to why this happens. There’s a lot of science that
goes into it.

Listen, you can spend the next year trying to master 5 new
habits, end up frustrated you didn’t accomplish any of them, or you
can drop 4 of them for the next 66 days while you master the first
one and then be excited in a year when all of them are mindless
habits.

What ONE THING are you going to turn into a habit over the next
66 days?

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This show will help you find abundant success in your personal as well as business life. You'll be lead towards greater achievement in your physical well-being, accomplishments in your business or career, and true joy in your relationships, by focusing on your attitude and mindset.
Your host, P. Desmond Adams will show you how to "change the world around you by changing the world within you." Desmond will teach you how to see all of life's experiences as beneficial to your whole being, discover how to be steady and consistent in your efforts so you can finally finish what you started, increase what you accomplish in life with the same amount of time and effort, and understand the greater purpose of your existence and how that will bring an unimagined peace within.
You'll benefit from over 30 years of study Desmond has done through the teachings of personal development and self-help teachers such as Tony Robbins, Napoleon Hill, Gregg Braden, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Wallace Wattles, Jack Canfield, Ernest Holmes, Rhonda Byrne and the one who finally helped Desmond discover the secret to the Law of Attraction, Charles F. Haanel.